Table 2.
Clinical and demographic characteristics of schizophrenia versus schizoaffective disorder.
| Schizophrenia (N = 173) |
Schizoaffective (N = 82) |
T-value | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Age | 38.6 | 12.0 | 40.9 | 11.0 | -1.48 | 0.14 |
| Gender (% male) | 64% | 52% | 3.2 | 0.07 | ||
| Patient years of school | 13.6 | 2.64 | 13.5 | 3.16 | 0.29 | 0.77 |
| Parent years of school | 14.7 | 3.1 | 14.3 | 3.33 | 0.84 | 0.40 |
| BPRS depression | 7.42 | 3.34 | 9.12 | 3.94 | − 3.57 | 0.001 |
| BPRS positive symptoms | 8.52 | 4.72 | 7.68 | 4.15 | 1.38 | 0.17 |
| BPRS negative symptoms | 7.41 | 2.95 | 6.69 | 2.64 | 1.87 | 0.06 |
| BPRS disorganization symptoms | 5.20 | 1.76 | 4.7 | 1.29 | 2.26 | 0.025 |
| Z-scored cognition | 0.0162 | 0.97 | − 0.0341 | 1.04 | 0.38 | 0.71 |
| Z-scored interpersonal discrepancy score | 0.1032 | 1.03 | − 0.2177 | 0.89 | 2.42 | 0.016 |
| Z-scored work discrepancy score | 0.0841 | 0.97 | − 0.1774 | 1.05 | 1.97 | 0.05 |